What factual information would you withhold from your children?

What factual information have you withheld from your children when they've asked? What information would you withhold from your children (and at what ages)? Or is your attitude, "I'll tell them anything they want to know - education is my responsibility, and knowledge is power"? Do you think it's right to withhold information from children or teenagers? If so, what information and at what ages? Is it ever right to withhold information from them?


Thanks!|||"what do you think a teenager (15, 16) who's committed to not having any sort of sex before marriage should know about sex, birth control, etc.?"





Everything. If they change their minds, they're going to need to know this stuff. They're also going to need it after they get married, unless they plan on popping out kids non-stop for the next 25-30 years.|||It depends on the topic and the age of the child. If you are talking about sex, politics, and other topics that cause strife and arguments then I think that they will have to deal with it soon enough, if I can shelter them, I should do so and let them be a kid. If it is bullying, kindness and other daily things that every child should know and understand then I think the more information the better. My kids understand that there are bad people in the world and that they need to be kind no matter what others do and that they are not the reason other people are mean. If you wanted me to discuss gay rights and birth control at age 6, no way.|||It makes me so mad when parents feed lies about Santa. One time, a child in my class asked me if Santa was real. The child obviously had their doubts or she would not have asked. I told her no.|||My son knows mommy had a baby in her belly. Since he is only 4 (and only 3 while I was pregnant) I failed to explain in scientific detail where babies came from. Just said when two people love each other sometimes you get a baby. It will be explained later probably around 6-8.|||I wouldn't tell my little kids every detail into how babies or made. Or that their daddy actually fathered their cousin because Uncle Aven is Sterile.





And your other Question, i would deal with it the exact same way as I would with a sexually active teen. My 14 year old stepson pledged to refrain from sexual activity until he is in a stable relationship and is old enough to deal with the consequences if protection should fail. He has access to protection, and he knows he can come to me or his dad. Especially his dad because his dad had him at 16.|||That santa isn't real...shhhh...